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• stone-cold

Adjective

stone cold

1. (idiomatic) Very cold; lacking any semblance of warmth.

   I forgot to turn on the burner under the soup and found it sitting there, still stone cold, twenty minutes later.

2. (idiomatic) Certain; definite; obvious.

   Interest rate rise a 'stone-cold certainty' despite industry plea (The Independent, 6 November 2006)

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